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Tai rolled over on his back and listened. There it was again. High pitched squeals and too much giggling going on in the next room for such an early morning. He pulled the pillow over his head in order to reduced the sound so he could go back to sleep. It didn't work, no. Oh it did muffled the commotion in the next room but it also congested his oxygen level to a barely there intake.

He growled and tossed the pillow over his head to land softly against the wall.

What were they talking so loudly about! Tai growled. He shoved his legs into a pare of pant and trotted to his sister's room. He was going to just barge in but he remembered a very embarrassing moment last year in seeing his sister in just a bra and shorts.- so instead he knocked and yelled.

"Do you have any idea of what time it is?" Tai shouted through the door. "There are people who are still asleep! Sleep is what NORMAL people do in the mornings! They sleep!"

Davis opened the door, wide and gave his friend a cocky smile, "Tai, you are the only one I know who refers the afternoon to morning."

"What are you doing here?" Tai mumbled, headed for the living room with Davis in tow. True, on spotting the clock in that room, it did say twelve-forty-two. "why are you in Kari's room?"

"We were talking." Davis gave him an innocent look.

Tai glared back.

"Relax Tai." Mimi and Yolei came out of Kari's room as well. "We were chaperoning them. The only reason the door was closed was because you were sleeping and we didn't want to wake you up."

"You did a lousy job." Tai hissed as he watched his sister roll her eyes.

"Don't mind him." Kari waved her brother off, "He's that way when he comes home from a late night."

"Yeah?" Davis grinned, "So what happen?"

"And they say we girls are the ones that gossip!" Mimi sat crossed legged next to Tai.

"We have some news to tell you." Yolei sighed. "We aren't sure how you are going to take it but just try to be reasonable about it and mature."

"Don't ask him to do the impossible," Kari sat next to Davis, across from her brother.

"Okay. We would like you to try to listen to us before you do anything rash and immature." Yolei spoke to him as she was speaking to a child.

"Knock it off, both of you." Tai growled. He did have a long night and his head kept reminding him of that. It was a good night but well….

"There is going to be a new addition to our little family," Yolie smiled brightly. Of course, 'their little family' she meant her friends. They seemed like extended family.

"I thought your parents were done." Tai looked at her in a pity sort of a way. She had more brothers and sisters then an orphanage, why more. "Is your father going through mid-life crises' again?"

"Uh, no." Yolei shook her head. "You misunderstood me."

"Tai." Mimi leaned over with a wide smile on her face, "Someone is going to have a baby!" As she said the word 'baby' her voice rose ten notches.

"A baby?" Tai blinked a moment. He stared down at the small stand that was arranged between the two sofa's. Then slowly his head raised, his eyes at first were large when they took in his sister's face. Slowly, those brown chocolate morsels landed on Davis where they slanted. "I. Am. Going. To. Kill. You."

"W-What! NO!" Davis shook his head, raising from his seat. "You don't understand!"

"Oh, I understand alright!" Tai lounged at the younger boy, barely catching him as Davis jumped over the sofa and raced for the door. It was locked and Davis hurried to unlock the bolt clumsily.

"Tai you got it all wrong!" Mimi tackled Tai but only managed to grab his leg, which she held on for dear life.

"Let me go!" Tai shook his leg but Mimi wouldn't loosen her grip so he started to drag the honey blonde across the floor.

"Tai you are being a jerk again!" Kari yelled. "I'm not the one who is preg…"

"Don't you talk to me right now!" Tai turned at her. "I can't believe you let this happen!"

"I didn't let anything happen because nothing happen!" Kari yelled.

"Mimi let me go!" Tai bent down and pried Mimi's finger's loose.

"Will you listen you big Neanderthal!" Yolei yelled but Tai had already headed down the hall and out the door, which still was hanging open from Davis' swift escape.

"I told you he would do something immature." Kari huffed.

Mimi rose from her spot on the floor, grabbing her purse. "I'm going to call Joe and Izzy."

"Yeah, maybe Ken could help with all this mess too." Yolei punched in her own numbers as Mimi waited for someone to pick up her own phone call.

"Joe! Thank the heavens!" Mimi made a dramatic hand wave towards the ceiling.


Joe blinked a few times as Mimi rambled on. He took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Why couldn't you just go out and say 'sora's having a baby." He listened as Mimi started on how she wanted to savory the surprise. Either way, it made no sense to him. Savoring any kind of news just allows the other to stew in their own thoughts, predicting worse things possible. "Yeah, I'll go look for him. Hopefully I can get there before he kills Davis. If not, I'll take a shovel to dispose of the body." Joe listen as Mimi gasp and started on how she didn't mean this to happen, "Mims, I was joking. apparently I need to do more often since everyone takes me serious no matter what I say. Yes I'm off! I'm out the door already."

Joe looked down one side of the street, then up the other side. Where would he start? Davis would be running blind, running without thought.


Ducking and dodging pedestrians , Davis ran. He ran through the center of the street to throw Tai off his trail but the blare shrill sounds of the horns gave him away. He took a dash through the auto car wash, even though it wasn't running he hoped the water would hide his scent and lead Tai off his trail. With a quick look over his shoulder, he was the silhouette of a bush brown mass of hair bobbing behind him. Not close but he was gaining. Davis ran up the stairs of the town's small police department.

"He's going to kill me!" he yelled as he ran through the department and out the back door.

The small police force watched as the door slowly shut only to look the other way as another door open to reveal a larger boy with bushy hair.

"I'm going to kill him!" Tai shouted at them as he followed Davis' step.

"Ignore them." Ken's father, a fellow police officer shook his head, "I'll speak to their parents after work."

"B-but…" Another officer looked a bit alarm, "Shouldn't we stop them."

"No, they'll go back to being best friends in a few hours. Still, I'll speak with their parents."

Davis hurled over fences, leaped over tall buildings…well small toy garage and there was only one. He had taken a gravely scenic route through the grave yard, still Tai followed. Davis was panting pretty hard and he knew he couldn't go on much longer. With luck, maybe he ran the anger out of Tai. Abruptly, he stopped. He took a deep breath and a few more, trying to catch his breath. He couldn't shake him. Tai was like a mad dog and he was frothing around the mouth. Still, Davis was tired. He had to make his stand so he stood tall, shoulders back and chest out, hoping it made him look bigger and stronger then he actually was, and he watched Tai approached him, fist clutching tightly at his side.

Davis looked around slowly, realizing his location. It was their childhood park where they shared a lot of memories playing together. He now stood on a solid, frozen pond where they had all learnt ice skating and shared many bruises from the falls. It was a fitting place to make his stand, Davis looked up as flakes of snow started downwards, but it was a cold day to die.

"If you hit him I am going to wring your neck!" Joe stormed up to Tai, giving him a hard hit along side of the head. His cheeks were flushed from the cold and his glasses had fogged up. He was heaving pretty hard as well from his search of his two friends. By luck, he found them pretty quickly. It was actually Izzy who recommended that he checked the park. "Do you know what I was doing? I was studying, Tai. Studying for a very large examine tomorrow! Do you know why I am out here? So you wouldn't kill Davis."

"My sister is pregnant because of him!" Tai growled.

"She is not." Joe shook his head.

"She isn't?"

"No." Joe took off his glasses, rubbing the moisture off them. "No. And if you would listen before you jumped to conclusions or even if you would ask questions, you would had known she wasn't."

"Then why did he run?" Tai asked, his eyes drifting to Davis. "Why did you run?"

"Because you were going to kill me!" Davis threw his hands up in the air. "I idolize you Tai. I know you better then you know yourself and I knew you wouldn't listen when you get that feral look in your eyes. You wouldn't listen to anything! If I hadn't run, I would had been strangled!"

"Then what…who is?" Tai asked. "Sora." Joe whispered. "I have spoken with her earlier this morning. She sounded very excited."

"Well, why didn't she tell me?" Tai frowned, feeling a little betrayed and hurt. Sora and he went way back to the diaper stage. They had done everything together. They shared everything with each other, until she ran off to Paris. Now, she wasn't the same. Paris had corrupted her. It had made her into an adult that no longer confined in her childhood friend.

"You wouldn't get up when she called." Davis yelled across the pond, still not certain he should approached Tai. "Kari tried to wake you."

"Oh." Tai scratched his head.

"Sora had said that she wanted to come home when she advanced more in to her pregnancy. I'm assuming to be closer to her mother and well, maybe us too." Joe went on.

"Is Matt going to do it?" Tai raised his eyebrows. "Let her move back?"

"I think you are underestimating him." Joe patted Tai on the back before slowly slipping his glasses in place. "I got the impression that he would do anything for her. Besides, the Sora I know would do it whether he wanted her to or not."

"Wait." Davis moved towards Joe. "So she's moving back?"

"Yeah, I think so. Maybe not permitted but at least until the baby is born." Joe smiled. "By then, maybe we can convince them to stay."

"So Matt will come with her." Davis' face grew pale. "And his brother, whathisname maybe coming too."

"Tk." Joe shrugged but Tai and Davis exchanged knowing looks.

"Guys." Joe picked up on their thoughts. "Davis, it will do you good to have some healthy competition and Tai, you need to let her go. One day she'll want a husband and kids of her own."

"She can adopt." Tai hissed, pushing pass Joe.